The Self-Defeating Notion of the Sovereign Subject in US Gun Culture

The politicization of US gun culture since the 1970s has popularized the idea that individual freedom and security is dependent upon the reclamation of traditionally defined sovereign powers. We increasingly hear individual and popular sovereignty invoked as justification for armed vigilantism, remi...

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Main Author: Chad Kautzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2020-04-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.6